Are EA still relevant?

[Onyxmeth]

FreeTalkLive said:

Onyxmeth said:

Euphoria14 said:
Someone please correct me if I am wrong as I have heard this somewhere on this site and I could be waaaayyyyy off.

Sin and Punishment was an on-rails shooter correct? If so, will Sin and Punishment 2 be the same thing?

Now if both are true, why would be people be looking forward to that and then push another "on-rails" (or so they say) shooter to the curb?

Just to clarify, there are two distinct types of "on-rails shooter".

There is the type that is also refered to as the "light gun shooter", which was born from games like Virtua Cop, Lethal Enforcers, Terminator 2: The Arcade Game and Mad Dog McCree. It involves a predetermined path the game chooses for you and the movement is automatic. You simply concentrate on shooting and reloading.Dead Space Wii will be this type of game.

 

Duck Hunt is a light gun shooter which came out in 1984.  Although, Wikipedia says it was released in 1976, which is news to me - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Hunt

 

The Odyssey had a light gun also before that I believe. Those I suppose would be like the grandfathers of the genre, but they lack the movement and danger of the light gun games of today, so they don't entirely appeal to the same crowd. I was just giving the earliest of light gun games that show the same traits as what Dead Rising Extraction is. If Nintendo were to redo some sort of Duck Hunt, it probably wouldn't resemble a modern day lightgun shooter at all, and would probably have more in common with skeet shooting. The first lightgun shooter that actually is like the lightgun shooters of today is Mad Dog McCree (1990) in the arcades. I can't find any info on anything prior to that.